Account Protection Specialist

Brex
Vancouver, Canada
Remote

Who this role is best for

B2B customer communications professionals with fraud operations experience will find this role in account protection and risk mitigation at Brex.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in financial services or fintech and strong customer communication skills
    — “Experience in financial services, fintech, Big Four, accounting, or a related financial services environment.”
  • Individuals who have handled complex risk cases and can balance empathy with procedural rigor
    — “Speak with fraud victims using appropriate, empathetic talking points while safeguarding both the customer and Brex.”
  • Professionals with experience in identity verification and regulatory compliance processes
    — “Experience evaluating identity-verification or financial documentation.”

Things to consider

  • Scheduled in-office training is required, despite the role being fully remote
    — “There will be some in-person training required in our Vancouver office.”
  • Candidates must be available to work within a specific Pacific Time window
    — “Candidates must be available to work scheduled hours within this coverage window.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in resolving high-risk accounts with cross-functional teams
    — “Partner effectively across teams to resolve complex issues and escalated situations.”
  • Emphasize your ability to communicate professionally with customers and financial institutions
    — “Communicate professionally with customers, merchants, financial institutions, and other parties to obtain information or documentation needed to assess potential fraud.”
  • Showcase your data analysis skills and ability to extract actionable insights
    — “Extract, analyze, and clearly present operational data.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Protected Brex and its customers from fraud and financial crime
  • Improved customer experience while mitigating risk
Typical background
Experience in fraud operations and risk management

Skills & requirements

Required

Fraud DetectionCustomer CommunicationRisk ManagementCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

Regulatory ComplianceKYC

About the role

Original posting from Brex

Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Account Protection at Brex

Our priority is to keep customers happy and their businesses protected while communicating vital information to internal teams. We help manage Brex’s risk exposures, partnering cross-functionally with Risk and Credit teams, Compliance, Data, and Engineering to help Brex scale efficiently without compromising quality.

What you’ll do

As a member of the Account Protection Team within Risk and Credit, you will help protect Brex and its customers from fraud, financial crime, and account takeover risk. You will solve complex risk problems alongside a high-performing team while delivering a thoughtful, clear, and customer-centered experience.

The ideal candidate has experience with B2B customer communications and fraud operations, including KYC, terms-of-service adherence, enhanced identity verification, regulatory and reputational risk evaluation, and account takeover mitigation. You will own customer communications related to fraud and financial crime prevention, balancing risk mitigation with a strong customer experience.

This team operates between 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PT. Candidates must be available to work scheduled hours within this coverage window.

Where you’ll work

This role will be fully remote and based in Vancouver. There will be some in-person training required in our Vancouver office.

Responsibilities

Access systems and document actions taken to service customers efficiently and accurately.

Determine appropriate actions under established procedures to protect Brex and customer assets; partner with management on complex cases.

Communicate professionally with customers, merchants, financial institutions, and other parties to obtain information or documentation needed to assess potential fraud.

Support cross-functional teams, including CX, Fraud Operations, KYC, and Cash Operations, to ensure appropriate action is taken on high-risk accounts.

Speak with fraud victims using appropriate, empathetic talking points while safeguarding both the customer and Brex.

Review and assess the validity of customer documentation.

Place and receive calls escalated by cross-functional teams or team leads.

Partner effectively across teams to resolve complex issues and escalated situations.

Contribute to projects and initiatives that reduce fraud-related complaints and create a more seamless customer and fraud-support experience.

Adhere to applicable regulatory, legal, and internal policy requirements.

Extract, analyze, and clearly present operational data.

Work effectively across email, phone, and chat support channels.

Requirements

Experience in customer experience, operations, and risk management.

Experience in fraud prevention, account protection, or financial-crime operations.

Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Sound judgment, strong attention to detail, and the ability to make consistent decisions using established procedures.

Proactive approach and ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

Availability to work assigned shifts between 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PT.

Bonus points

Experience in financial services, fintech, Big Four, accounting, or a related financial services environment.

Experience in dispute resolution.

Experience using Salesforce or comparable case-management tools.

Extensive client-facing experience, particularly in fraud-support environments.

Experience evaluating identity-verification or financial documentation.

Compensation

The expected pay range for this role is $28.00–$30.00 CAD per hour. Starting hourly pay depends on factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demand, and internal pay parity.

This range reflects a standard work week. As an hourly employee, you will be eligible for overtime pay when applicable. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of the total compensation package.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

Source: Brex careers

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